About Robert Crannell Minor Sr

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    Robert Crannel Minor, Sr., a landscapist in the Barbizon style, was born in 1839 in New York City. His experience in France in the mid-1860s, where he was influenced by Camille Corot and Narcisse Diaz, was pivotal in his career and the formation of his aesthetic point of view. He had earlier studied in New York City with Alfred C. Howland.

    Minor traveled in Italy and Germany, studying, as well, with Gustave Boulanger and von Luppen at the Antwerp Academy after his Barbizon experience.

    In England in 1873-1874, Minor was represented in exhibitions at the Paris Salon of 1872, the Grosvenor Gallery and London's Royal Academy. Back in America in the latter year, Minor set up a studio in Greenwich Village in New York...

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